At the end of the aeon of Pieces, the zeitgeist is a storm. Wisdom comes from within if we question authority, and our actions determine our identity. In like a lion, out like a lamb, the storm wind blows. Beware Caesar the ides of March are come.
"... shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Although well known inside military circles, the fact of military rape by our own soldiers has reached critical proportions. One in three women in the military are victims of sexual assault by their fellow troops, as well as one in five men. That means that their are thousands of rapists in the military, and when they reenter the civilian world, they all become the sexual predators that assault our wives and children.http://invisiblewarmovie.com/

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

These miners knew the dynamics of capitalism and the role of government.
They knew who their friends and enemies were. They knew that only by
organizing and physically defying centers of power would they ever get
justice. They did not trust authority. They did not wait for authority
figures to dole out justice. They were not seduced by the empty rhetoric
of politicians. They knew that if they wanted a better world they would
have to be their own leaders. They would have to fight for it. And this
is a lesson in the nature of corporate and governmental power that we
have forgotten. We must make the powerful afraid of us if we are to get
any semblance of an open and free society. They are not and never will
be on our side.

It is an old and cruel tactic in any company town. Reduce wages and
benefits to subsistence level. Break unions. Gut social assistance
programs. Buy and sell elected officials and judges. Fill the airwaves
with mindless diversion and corporate propaganda. Pay off the press.
Poison the soil, the air and the water to extract natural resources and
leave behind a devastated wasteland. Plunge workers into debt. Leave
them owing more on their houses than the structures are worth. Make sure
the children will be burdened by tens of thousands of dollars lent to
them for an education and will be unable to find decent jobs. Make sure
that everything from hospital bills to car payments to credit card fees
exact increasing pounds of flesh. And when workers stumble, when they
cannot pay soaring interest rates, jack up rates further and deploy
predators from debt collection agencies to harass the debtors and seize
their assets. Then toss them away. Company towns all look the same. And
we live in the biggest one on earth. - Chris Hedges

“It is freedom or death, and your children will be free,” Mother Jones
told the miners. “We are not going to leave a slave class to the coming
generation, and I want to say to you the next generation will not
charge us for what we have done; they will charge and condemn us for
what we have left undone.”

The coal companies have erased this piece of history from school
textbooks. It is too inconvenient. It exposes predatory capitalism’s
ruthless commodification and exploitation of human beings and the
natural world. It exposes the drive by corporations to keep us
impoverished, disempowered and unorganized. If corporate forces can
sanitize history, if they can ensure historical amnesia, then the
doctrine of laissez faire economics—which in short promises that the
wealthier that rich people get, the better it is for all of us—can
continue to rule our lives.

All the gains, often paid for with the lives of working men and women,
have now been reversed. We are back where we started. We must organize,
resist and build movements. We must embrace radical politics and remain
perpetually alienated from power or become a subjugated herd. I do not
call for an emulation of this violence. But I do call for direct and
sustained confrontation with all formal mechanisms of power, including
the Democratic Party. The corporate state, for its part, should also
remember the lesson from Blair Mountain. There are limits to how far a
people can be pushed. And if violence continues to be the preferred
mechanism for control, if the state refuses to institute rational
economic and political reforms to address the growing misery that
corporations inflict on the citizens, it will, as at Blair Mountain,
engender a violent response.

The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President (Paperback)
by Vincent Bugliosi (Author), Molly Ivins (Foreword), Gerry Spence (Author)

Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order (Paperback)
by Mark Crispin Miller (Author)

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (Hardcover)
by Andrew Bacevich (Author)

The Dark Side - Jane Mayer

Find out about "Learned Helplessness"

Standard Operating Procedure

Right is Wrong - Ariana Huffington

The Post American World

The Revolution: A Manifesto - Ron Paul

What Happened - Scott McClellan

Fire-Breathing Liberal - Robert Wexler

Blackwater: Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill

Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians by Chris Hedges and Laila al-Arian

“Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman” by Mary Tillman

Imperial Life inside the Emerald City - Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Zeitgeist: The Movie - 2007 by Peter Joseph

This blog was inspired in 2007 by Peter Joseph's movie Zeitgeist. Watch the first two below, then to prepare for the 2010 release of the third in the series: Zeitgeist: Moving Forward. This should be interesting.